The water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, many lakes and rivers, are not conducive to the galloping of the cavalry, and are more conducive to relying on the fortification of the Xiongcheng, coupled with the natural danger of dividing the world into two, so there is no lack of examples of dividing the river in history.

There are two key points in the south of the Yangtze River, one is the Jiangdu that occupies the position of the mouth of the big river, and the other is the two Xiangzhou in Huzhou, the two Xiangxiang are known as the waist of the world, occupy Xiangyang, enter the tiger to look at the south of the Yangtze River, retreat can be this as the place where the troops are located, block the connection between Jiangnan and Shuzhou, and truly make the Jiangdu a lonely place.

According to Xiao Jin's earliest plan, after the battle of Dongting Lake, he took advantage of the situation to capture Liangxiang, but Xiao Jin never thought that Xu Beiyou almost relied on his own strength to drag his army to the footsteps, and finally dragged the two reinforcements from Shuzhou and Jiangbei to Liangxiang, so that the idea of the Wei army wanting a quick battle has been completely shattered, and even wanting to capture Liangxiang has become an extravagant hope.

The reason why the Houjian Iron Cavalry was able to capture the two Xiangs was because the Houjian at that time had already owned the entire Jiangbei, plus the land of Kyushu and the three states in the northeast, and the manpower and material resources were even greater than that of Dachu, but today's Wei State can not be compared with the Houjian of that year, according to Xiao Jin's vision, the Wei State should be the same as the Houjian of the year, first occupy half of the country, and then take this half of the country as the foundation, and then slowly figure it. Later Jian's occupation of Jiangbei, and the current Wei State wants to occupy Jiangnan, all of which are based on this reason, but under the premise that Jiangnan has not been captured, the Wei State, which has a narrow land and few people, cannot compare to the Great Qi that sits on the world.

If the Wei army insists on attacking the city and falls into the quagmire of attack and defense on both sides, it will become a wrestling situation between the two sides, from this point of view, Wei has no chance of winning, even if Xiao Jin is lucky to capture the two Xiang, in the face of the Great Qi that has solved the Northeast Mu Clan, the armies from all walks of life will inevitably step on one after another, and at that time, how many chances can there be?

Xiao Jin, as an old commander who once shined in the ten-year competition, how could he not understand such a truth, so now he is faced with two choices, either take advantage of the fact that the various armies of Daqi have not yet arrived in Jiangnan, lead the army to withdraw from Jiangnan, retreat to Wei, and rely on the natural danger of the East China Sea, still be a side of secession, in order to plan for the future.

The second option is to give it a go altogether.

If he chooses the first one, it can be said that he will leave the green mountains with firewood to burn, but if this is the only case, why would Xiao Jin launch this unjust war that has caused countless living beings to suffer? So he chose the second option.

In fact, as early as after the news from the northeast came, he had already made a decision, during this time, he seemed to be standing still, but in fact, he was secretly contacting the Daomen, accumulating strength, and only waiting for the last fight.

Under Xiao Jin's strong order, the Wei army originally stationed in the Jiangzhou area gradually abandoned Jiangzhou and entered the territory of Huzhou to fight with the main force of Wei besieging Liangxiang.

In the early winter of the twenty-fourth year of Chengping, a large army left the Liangxiang area of Huzhou and marched westward. This is a typical Wei army system, divided into "car" and "team", the car battalion and the baggage battalion are "car", the horse battalion and the infantry battalion are the "team", whether the generals or soldiers, are all wearing iron armor, and different from the conventional military system of the Great Qi, in the armament of weapons, mainly firearms, especially birds and artillery. Nearly half of the people in the baggage battalion are equipped with firearms, if someone wants to surprise attack the baggage battalion, even if it is a light cavalry army that comes and goes like the wind, in the face of the baggage battalion after forming a chariot formation, it is also not easy to go, unless it is a heavy cavalry army known as the first in combat power, under the fierce charge of death, it is possible to break through the chariot formation that can be called an iron bucket array.

But then again, in the land of Jiangnan Water Town, the heavy cavalry army cannot be deployed at all, so this kind of car formation is in the land of Jiangnan Water Town, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is invincible.

This army of about 10,000 people, led by Xiao Jin's henchman Shangguan Tan himself, is the elite core of the entire Wei army, and it is Xiao Jin's last pressure on the bottom of the box, even if it is a key battle such as attacking Liangxiang, Xiao Jin has never put it on the battlefield, but let them stay in Jiangzhou, until this moment, Xiao Jin was transferred to Huzhou.

Since it is the capital at the bottom of the box, in addition to showing that Xiao Jin has reached a desperate situation, it also shows that Xiao Jin will never let this elite division do useless work, and there must be great gains. But this is not surprising, after all, good steel is used on the blade, Xiao Jin wants to get out of the desperate situation, so he can only take a risk.

The stubborn Shangguan Tan rode on a "heavenly horse" from the grassland, and the three heads of the Shangguan clan, who were still complacent some time ago, had deep eyes at this time, and even the whole person exuded a gloomy meaning.

The five brothers of the Shangguan family, aside from the woman Shangguan Qiushui, the eldest Shangguan Feng, the second Shangguan Yun, the third Shangguan Tan, and the fourth Shangguan Chao, the eldest brother Shangguan Feng died in Meishan Mingling, and the fourth brother Shangguan Chao died under the sword of Xu Beiyou, and now the second brother Shangguan Yun has not been spared, and on the way back to Jiangnan from the Northeast, he died at the hands of Bingchen, and now he is the only one Shangguan Tan left, and I don't know when and when he will be like his three brothers, he will die if he dies.

This made Shangguan Tan ask himself, was Shangguan Tan's decision to choose to attach himself to Xiao Jin, the king of Wei, really right? Now that Shangguan Tan was almost dying because of Xiao Jin, how could Shangguan Tan not feel sad and angry?

It's just that there is no turning back on this road, either he dies halfway, or he goes all the way to the end, and Shangguan Tan has no way back.

At this moment, Shangguan Tan suddenly stopped and squinted at a valley in front of him.

An old man beside him asked curiously: "General, this valley has been searched by us, and no ambushes have been found on both sides of the top, there should be no problem, what is the general worried about?"

This old man in a literary shirt who stood out a little in the army was a person from the Ghost King's Palace, and this time a large number of Ghost King's Palace monks accompanied the army, to a large extent, to act as a scout.

Shangguan Tan hesitated slightly, frowned, and said, "It's a little too calm." ”

The old man smiled slightly, and said: "It was unexpected for the king to send troops into Shu this time, and Yu Kuang and the others were cowering in Liangxiang City, and the news was blocked, and it was reasonable that they didn't have time to react. Besides, with the strength of the two cities, it is okay to hold the city, but if you want to go out of the city with us, where will it be our opponent. ”

Shangguan Tan sighed, still worried: "I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what if." ”